Profits from cover sales will be donated to the children of the late singer
Bad Wolves The Cranberries , this Thursday, the 22nd . The version was originally supposed to feature the band's former vocalist, Dolores O'Riordan , but she passed away on January 15th , the date she was scheduled to record the vocals. She was 46 years old.
In the Bad Wolves video, there's a woman wearing the same outfit and gold body paint as Dolores in the original Zombie video. In the footage, she tries to reach vocalist Tommy Vext, but the two are separated by a glass wall, so she can only leave gold fingerprints on the material.
In a statement, Lindsey Holmes, the British agent for the late Irish singer, said that Dolores was “intrigued by the simple yet effective lyrical changes that make the cover as relevant today as [the song] was in the early 1990s.”
These changes include replacing the word "weapons" with "drones" and the year "1916"—in Ireland, the date of the Easter Rising—with "2018." Profits from the cover of Bad Wolves' "Zombie" will be donated to O'Riordan's three children.
Watch the music video for “Zombie” by Bad Wolves below.
